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1,000 Yankee prisoners in Bonham, May '64

SFC Danial F. Lisarelli USAR,

To address your question about the "1,000 prisoners in Bonham," I have prepared a web page.

http://www.bourlandcivilwar.com/1,000Prisoners1864BonhamTX.htm
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Unfortunately, Brig-Gen. H.E. McCulloch burned the records. ..Plus McCulloch had ONLY Texas State Troops reporting to the Headquarters of the Northern Sub- District in Bonham on Mar 13, 1864.
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State Troops only, March 13, 1864 ... "... I have no infantry but the State troops, and there are some places in the district at which one company should be stationed as a post guard. ..." ..H.E. McCulloch to J.E. Slaughter (Mar 13, 1864) ..per ORsIv53[S#111]p971.

Capt. W.G. Moseley’s 7th Light Artillery guarded these 1,000 prisoners in the Bonham area. ..Pvt. James Franklin McFarland served in Capt. Owen G. Jones’s Co. C of Moseley’s command and "Did guard duty at Federal prison in Bonham when 16 years old in the Confederate army [sic, Texas State Troops]. No description has been added." ..per McFarland family records.

Records show that Capt. Moseley’s Company was active from about August 1863 until after April 1865 in North Texas. ..During the December 1863 Kiowa raid into Montague and Cooke Counties, Moseley’s Artillery was part of TST Major J.R. Diamond’s force in pursuit of the Kiowas. ..We know that on Apr 25, 1865 Moseley was stationing 25 men and 50 Tonkawa scouts in the Young County area.

Records burned. � Brig-Gen. H.E. McCulloch, accompanied by H.G. Askew, burned the Northern Sub-District of Texas records in the open fireplace in the Bonham courthouse in late May, 1865. per H.G. Askew’s article in Confederate Veteran, v23n10p458 (Oct. 1915).

The BOURLAND PAPERS contain 43 letters that do not, but should, appear in the OFFICIAL RECORD: thirty-four (34) letters written by Brig-Gen, H. E. McCulloch to Col. James Bourland and nine (9) letters that Bourland wrote to McCulloch.
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Again, please see the graphic and explaination on my web page:
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http://www.bourlandcivilwar.com/1,000Prisoners1864BonhamTX.htm
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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